PhD, Master’s & Postdoc Opportunities in petroleum engineering in Canada

King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) is offering a postdoctoral position focused on alloy development for well downhole sealing in the oil and gas industry. The project sits within KAUST’s Physical Science and Engineering Division, in the area of Materials Science and Engineering, and is aimed at developing a metallurgical solution that can be used for sealing and plug-and-abandonment (P&A) applications in downhole wells. The successful candidate will be responsible for for...

Pennsylvania State University is advertising a Postdoctoral Scholar position in computational studies of flow in porous media at the pore scale . The work is based at Penn State in State College, Pennsylvania, United States , and is led by Dr. Luis Ayala (Head of the John and Willie Leone Family Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering) and Dr. Zuleima Karpyn (EMS Associate Dean for Graduate Education and Research). The successful candidate will conduct independent and collaborative research...

Molde University College (HiMolde), Norway, is advertising a PhD position in logistics with focus on petroleum sector debottlenecking at the Faculty of Logistics. The project sits at the intersection of logistics, petroleum engineering, energy logistics, applied mathematics, and computational modeling , with an emphasis on how oil and gas facilities can expand output while maintaining energy efficiency and coordinating supply chains under uncertainty. The research topic is framed around the ener...

Two PhD positions are available at the University of Texas at Arlington in Resource and Energy Engineering , starting Spring 2027 . The positions are supervised by Prof. Mohamed Malki and focus on subsurface energy , computational modeling , geophysics , and machine learning , with applications to geologic hydrogen and enhanced geothermal systems . Position 1: Numerical Simulation and Reactive Transport involves computational modeling of subsurface fluid flow, transport, and reactions, with appl...

Funded PhD research opportunities are available at Wrocław University of Science and Technology (WUST), Poland , with supervision and research guidance associated with Ahmed E. Radwan (Visiting Professor, Editor). The post invites motivated Master’s graduates, or those expecting to graduate soon, to express interest in doctoral research in an international environment. The advertised research directions are broad and interdisciplinary, spanning energy storage , hydrogen and carbon storage (CCS/C...

Yuanhang Chen at Louisiana State University is recruiting motivated researchers for a fully funded research group working on subsurface engineering , decarbonization , and ML/AI . Openings: two postdoctoral / senior postdoctoral researchers and two graduate student positions (prospective PhD preferred). One postdoc is full-time/on-site, while the other may allow part-time and/or remote work. Start dates are flexible: ASAP is preferred for postdocs, with later 2026 or early 2027 also possible. Gr...

Two fully funded PhD positions are available in the School of Mechanical, Medical and Process Engineering at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane, Australia. These positions focus on fluid transport processes in porous media, a field with significant implications for carbon geosequestration, hydrogen subsurface storage, fuel cells, and microfluidic device applications. The research is supported by the Australian Research Council (ARC) and supervised by Dr Zhongzheng Wang, a re...